Clarinda Police Chief Keith Brothers reported at around 1:17-a.m. Sunday, that “At approximately 12:00 a.m. Sunday, June 9th two students walked away from the Clarinda Academy. Both students are white males, no additional description. Law Enforcement personnel & Clarinda Academy staff are searching for the students now.”

One person was said to have been injured and transported to the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, Saturday, following a rollover accident one-quarter of a mile east of Wiota on Highway 83. The accident was reported at around 4:21-p.m.

According to dispatch reports, a pickup was apparently passing another vehicle..possibly a tractor…when the vehicle went out of control and rolled into the ditch and landed on its wheels.

The male driver was transported to CCMH after he extricated himself from the pickup. Anita Rescue and Wiota 1st Responders responded to the scene. No other details were immediately available.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Democrat Pete Buttigieg, who hopes to become the first openly gay presidential nominee from a major political party, said at an LGBTQ event in Des Moines, Saturdays that activists must band together to deny President Donald Trump a second term. “We’ve got a lot to worry about, a lot to fight for, but we have the means to do it,” he said. The mayor of South Bend, Indiana, stressed the need for people to vote and to become involved in politics.

Speaking before an audience gathered for LGBTQ pride festivities in front of the Iowa statehouse, Buttigieg accused the Trump administration of lacking a clear answer about whether people can be fired from their job for being gay.

In a 2017 Supreme Court case brought by a man who said he was fired from his job when he revealed he was gay, the Justice Department argued that federal protections did not cover sexual orientation. But the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a brief supporting the plaintiff in the case.

Buttigieg also railed against policies by the department of State and Health and Human Services that he said prevent same-sex couples from adopting children internationally, and prevent transgender Americans from getting health care.

Seven other candidates planned to speak at the event in the capital. On Friday night, Buttigieg attended a dinner honoring Matthew Shepard, the young gay man whose brutal 1998 beating and murder heightened national awareness on the issue of gay rights, and New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand was behind the bar at a gay bar.

Montgomery County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested 31-year old Casey Lee Tunnell, of Red Oak, Saturday. Following a traffic stop, Tunnell was arrested at around 7:45-a.m. for OWI/2nd offense. He was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $2,000 bond.

The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office says no injuries were reported following a rollover accident Saturday afternoon, near Red Oak. Deputies responded at around 12:56-p.m. to the scene west of Hawkeye Ford on Highway 34. Upon arrival, they found a 2000 Ford Expedition in the north ditch on its driver’s side.

An investigation revealed the SUV was traveling east on Highway 34 and had approached an eastbound vehicle from behind. A motorcycle ahead of the SUV completed a pass of the vehicle and while overtaking the eastbound vehicle, another vehicle traveling westbound came into view from the curve in the road.

The driver of the Expedition, 29-year old Leroy D. Gladden, of Omaha, avoided colliding with the westbound vehicle by steering onto the north shoulder of the road. The SUV went out of control and overturned before landing on the driver’s side, facing northwest.

Neither Gladden nor his juvenile passenger were injured as a result of the crash. Gladden was cited however, for Unsafe passing, and Driving Under Suspension. The SUV, owned by Amber N. Gladden, of Omaha, sustained $3,500 damage and is considered a total loss.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The cities of Dubuque, Fort Dodge and Oskaloosa have been awarded federal grants to clean up and redevelop contaminated sites.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced this week that the cities had been selected to receive $1.6 million in brownfield grants. They’re among 149 communities nationwide selected to receive 151 grant awards totaling nearly $65 million.

Dubuque will receive $800,000 to revitalize areas across the community, including sites in the South Port, Washington Neighborhood and North End neighborhoods. Fort Dodge is getting $500,000 to clean up the Wahkonsa Annex contaminated with inorganic contaminants, and Oskaloosa will get $300,000 to promote investment in existing neighborhoods, encourage cleanup and reuse contaminated property.